Branchiomma luctuosum

(Grube, 1870)

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Common name (English)

Feather duster tubeworm

Ηabitat

Global distribution

Ionian Sea 691 2; Ionian Sea 65628 0; Italian Exclusive Economic Zone 816 3; Italian Exclusive Economic Zone 9237 0; Italy 285 1; Italy 332 0; Mediterranean Sea 1618 0; Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin 612 2; Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin 4484 0; North Atlantic Ocean 645 2; North Atlantic Ocean 349 0; Turkish Exclusive Economic Zone 928 3; Turkish Exclusive Economic Zone 19906 0

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Establishment status

Established

Establishment status detail

Alien:

First detection year

1994

Online resource

http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=130881

Pathway

4 TRANSPORT – STOWAWAY - Ship/boat ballast water – Ballast

4 TRANSPORT – STOWAWAY - Ship/boat hull fouling – Hull

6 UNAIDED - Natural dispersal across border of IAS that have been introduced through pathways 1-5 - Nat

Pathway detail

Transported in ballast water; attachment to ship hulls; Suez Canal

Other notes

1st Med record: 1978

1st Med country: Italy

References

Russo AR (1997) Epifauna living on sublittoral seaweeds around Cyprus. Hydrobiologia 344: 169-179. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1002970714963

Çinar ME (2005) Polychaetes from the coast of northern Cyprus (eastern Mediterranean Sea), with two new records for the Mediterranean Sea. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 46: 143-159.

Katsanevakis S, Tsiamis K, Ioannou G, Michailidis N, Zenetos A (2009) Inventory of alien marine species of Cyprus (2009). Mediterranean Marine Science 10(2): 109-134. https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.113

Read G, Fauchald K (2021) World Polychaeta database. Branchiomma luctuosum (Grube, 1870). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=130881 on 2021-01-13